Best of 2020: How to Break and Make Life Changing Habits

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Christianity, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Mental Health

4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

"Your habits end up shaping what kind of person you become. And they're small little choices that happen over and over and over throughout your life." You might not give much thought to habits but what about lifestyle? They're really the same thing. Small habits build up and shape how you live your life. But making and breaking habits can be challenging, life-changing. And changing your life isn't easy! Get some tips from https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/patrick-miller/ (Patrick) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/keith-simon/ (Keith) as they share some of their habits, hacks, and other helpful resources. Also, make sure to scroll down and check out those resources below. Interested in more content like this? Listen to our episode on https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/how-to-beat-digital-distraction/ (How to Beat Digital Distraction). Want to learn more about faith and work? Read this interview with Patrick Cox of Veterans united on https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/stories/how-to-talk-about-your-faith-at-work-an-interview-with-patrick-cox-of-veterans-united/ (How to Talk About Your Faith at Work). Also, check out our website for more content on https://info.thecrossingchurch.com/faith-and-work (following God in your vocation). To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TheCrossingCOMO (Facebook), https://www.facebook.com/TheCrossingCOMO (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/thecrossingcomo (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Today's episode is actually one of our top episodes from 2020 and rather than going through and trying to repost all of our top episodes like I've seen some podcast do.
0:09.4	Instead, we just wanted to grab one that we thought might actually be helpful for you right now
0:13.5	because it's about habits and I know that at the end of the year a lot of
0:16.8	people are thinking about habits how to make new habits how to make
0:19.4	resolutions and this podcast helped a lot of people do that and I hope it'll help you today.
0:25.0	Welcome to Tim Minut Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:35.0	I'm Keith Simon.
0:36.0	And I'm Patrick Miller.
0:38.0	On today's episode, Patrick and I are going to talk about a topic that is really interesting us lately and that is habits.
0:47.3	How do you develop good habits?
0:48.8	How do you break bad habits?
0:50.6	What are the implications of keeping habits around that you'd rather get rid of?
0:55.8	How do habits form our character and the kind of people that we become?
1:00.1	And I think a lot of this has come out of our personal reading, a book called Atomic Habits by a guy named James Clear.
1:06.0	There's a book called Tiny Habits, another one The Power of a Habit.
1:09.0	So there's a lot of literature that's been around the last several years on it and so let's
1:14.7	start with this Patrick are there some habits that you would like to either establish
1:19.1	like good habits or maybe some bad habits you'd like to break.
1:22.8	I've definitely got both.
1:24.8	Bad habits that I want to break.
1:26.2	I feel like I'm going to step on your toes when I say this,
1:29.2	but I have a sweet eating problem and so I would love to stop eating sweets at night. Whatever sweet eating
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